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- Vol 46 No 6
- 18/03/2005
Abdelaziz of Arabia
President Bouteflika wants the Arab summit to underline his domination of regional politics
- Vol 45 No 16
- 06/08/2004
Military matters
The 3 August announcement that Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohamed Lamari had resigned for health reasons (for treatment in Spain for an eye condition) came after weeks of negotiation. The Presidency let it be known that President Abdelaziz Bout...
- Vol 45 No 6
- 19/03/2004
A man for election seasons
Algerians dislike their clever President but they'll probably re-elect him
- Vol 45 No 6
- 19/03/2004
Le Para moves east
On 9-10 March, fighting in Chad's Tibesti region, near the Niger border, indicated that fighters from Algeria's biggest active Islamist militia, the Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat (GSPC, Fundamentalist Group for Preaching and Fighting...
- Vol 45 No 5
- 05/03/2004
Squeezing Le Para
The Algerian security services' relaxed approach to the growing United States' military presence in the Sahel reflects their concern at the number of arms in circulation, especially in traditional partners Mali and Mauritania.
- Vol 45 No 4
- 20/02/2004
Desert shadows
Reports of an ambush at the end of January somewhere between 'north of Tamanrasset' in southern Algeria and northern Mali point to the complex and lethal war games under way across Africa's belt of Muslim states. The shadowy geography derives from the fac...
- Vol 44 No 21
- 24/10/2003
Split parties, stout leaders
President Bouteflika looks vulnerable ahead of the elections as politicians fall out
- Vol 44 No 10
- 16/05/2003
Domestic politics at last
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 5 May decision to end months of political sniping by sacking his former campaign manager turned political rival, Ali Benflis, has allowed Algerians to refocus on domestic politics in the run-up to the presidential election...
- Vol 44 No 7
- 04/04/2003
Boom to bust
The collapse of Abdelmoumen Rafik Khalifa's El Khalifa Group (EKG) has seen investors mobbing banks in search of their savings, French intelligence leaks about power brokers' roles in EKG's rise - plus a local aviation crisis.
- Vol 44 No 5
- 07/03/2003
Minister in peril
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika basks in the glow of an unprecedented visit from French President Jacques Chirac, welcomed as a hero on 2-4 March after his standoff with the United States over Iraq. Meanwhile, Boutef's friend and high-profile Energy and Mi...
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